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In this mystery by the author of Crooked Herring, a lawyer in Cromwell's England receives dangerous info that could stop a murder-or get him killed.
John Grey is a newly minted lawyer and would-be ladies' man with a bad habit of poking his nose into other people's business and getting tangled up in intrigue. That's unfortunate, because a mis-delivered letter from royalists has left Grey with more information about a murderous plot than it's entirely...
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For fans of Lindsey Davis and Iain Pears-A lawyer stands accused of murder in this historical mystery series opener set in Cromwell's England.
Two-time Edgar nominee L. C. Tyler is best known for his series featuring Ethelred and Elsie- a third-rate novelist and his gloriously vulgar agent, respectively. And so he should be: He's twice won Britain's "Last Laugh" award for the Best Humorous Mystery of the Year.
But with A Cruel Necessity, the first...
3) Fire
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It's the Autumn of 1666, and the Great Fire is still burning, the ashes of hundreds of houses and shops and St. Paul's Cathedral choking the air. The people, too, are choking, raging at the French, the Dutch, at the foreigners who-they are certain-lit the torch. Lord Arlington, the Secretary of State, might conceivably be interested in harnessing this anger; it can be so useful, at times, to have the population united in loathing of a common enemy....
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A politically sensitive murder is detected amid the chaos of a deadly plague in this "stellar . . . well-crafted" mystery set in Restoration London (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
It's 1665, and the Black Death has London in its hideous grip. It's bad news for everyone . . . almost. For a mysterious killer, it presents an opportunity to hide a dead body among a city full of them. But as corpses are collected and brought to the burial pit, one...
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In this Edgar-nominated cozy series opener, a second-rate British crime novelist and his quirky agent investigate his devious ex-wife's murder.
A mediocre mystery-writer (and thus a purveyor of red herrings), Ethelred Tressider has even less interest in writing his books than his (dwindling) fan base has in reading them, and his agent-the pesky, nosy, vulgar, chocolate-chomping Elsie-has no interest in them at all. But with a name like Ethelred,...
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From the author of Herring on the Nile, a fellow novelist's plea for help plunges a mid-list mystery writer and his agent into a murder investigation.
"You don't believe me, do you?" asked Henry. "That I might have killed somebody." Well, really. The genuine murderer-the real pro-tends to keep track of that sort of thing. And besides, there is no dead body to speak of. Understandably, Ethelred, our struggling mystery writer, is reluctant to help...
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From the author of The Herring in the Library, a struggling mystery author takes an Egyptian cruise for inspiration only to become surrounded by murder.
Ethelred Tressider's career is not, let's face it, what one might call glittering. In fact, it's barely what one might call capable of paying the gas bill. To be honest, this is not surprising: Ethelred lost any real interest in writing mystery novels many years ago, and his audience has never been...
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